Yes, Chernobyl has blown up twice — first the reactor and now the eponymous 5-part HBO/Sky miniseries — and the nuclear industry and its pundits are absolutely freaking out.

The Chernobyl nuclear plant sits idle but a dozen other reactors of the same design remain in operation and some could be in service for another 30 years. Could another one blow up?

When the Chernobyl nuclear accident happened April 26, 1986, Maia Mendel was five months’ pregnant with her daughter Julia, who would become President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s press secretary.

Bret Kugelmass, host of the long-running nuclear energy podcast Titans of Nuclear, had a similar answer as Mazin when asked by Inverse about Chernobyl Season 2. It. The best story to tell might be ...

On the night of April 25-26, 1986, an explosion and fire destroyed the Chernobyl 4 reactor about 60 miles from Kyiv, sending a radioactive cloud into the air that spread across the Soviet Union ...

Wildfires are common in the so-called Zone of Alienation around the abandoned Chernobyl plant. A larger-than-typical fire is stirring up radiation, though levels remain normal in Kyiv, the ...

When the Chernobyl nuclear accident happened on April 26, 1986, Maia Mendel was five months’ pregnant with her daughter Julia, ... Indeed, Kyrylo Budanov, head of Ukraine’s Defense Intelligence, ...